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Thursday, 26 October 2017

Former Guatemalan football official Hector Trujillo jailed

Former Guatemalan football
official Hector Trujillo has been
handed an eight-month jail sentence to become the first person sentenced in the
FIFA corruption scandal. Trujillo pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud,
and one count of wire fraud conspiracy in a US federal court in Brooklyn four
months ago.Judge Pamela Chen
ruled the 63-year-old will start his sentence on November 20 in Florida,. Besides
the prison term, the judge also ordered him to pay $415,000 in restitution. The
judge said the $175,000 in bribes that Trujillo pocketed to steer sports marketing
contracts to the federation over several years was money that should have been used to build soccer fields in poor neighborhoods
or buy kit for young players.

Trujillo served as general secretary of Guatemala's
Football Federation from 2009 to 2015 and also was a judge on the country's
constitutional court.